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The Grandpa's Orchard™ website allows the backyard fruit grower to order online and purchase the most proven disease resistant, antique, heritage, unique, and common bareroot fruit tree varieties on dwarf, semi-dwarf, semi-standard and standard rootstocks.

Grandpa's Choice™ varieties are the best apple, pear, peach, nectarine, sweet cherry, tart cherry, plum, prune, and apricot varieties.
Grandpa's Nature Friendly™ varieties all have proven natural disease resistance and tolerance.
Grandpa's Orchard™ tries to carry many varieties on special rootstocks, including Gisela®, MxM®, and Maxma® for cherry; Geneva™ and EMLA for apple; OHxF for pear; and other roots for the most sophisticated backyard fruit growers.
Go the "Growing Tips" page for maturity and pollination reference guides for most of the varieties Grandpa offers.

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Valstar™ Elstar Apple 'Valstar™ Elstar'

Valstar™ Elstar Apple 'Valstar™ Elstar'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Valstar™ is an improved red strain of Elstar, which is popular in Europe. The fruit ripens late in the summer and has excellent sweet-tart flavor. It is medium sized and keeps well. The fruit is mostly red striped over a golden background co

Jonathan Apple 'Red Jonathan'

Jonathan Apple 'Red Jonathan'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Red Jonathan hardly needs a description since it is one of the most popular heritage apples in the Midwest. Crisp, slightly striped, but mostly red, juicy and sweet tart. One of the best varieties for pies and sauce. Our strain is highly colored a

Grandpa's Choice Heirloom Apple Orchard 'Assorted Heirloom Collections'

Grandpa's Choice Heirloom Apple Orchard 'Assorted Heirloom Collections'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa always loved testing something new. There are thousands of named varieties in the world, so one could go on and on learning about new varieties. When you go into the produce department, there are only a handful of apple varieties on the s

Jonagold Apple 'Red Jonagold'

Jonagold Apple 'Red Jonagold'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Red Jonagold is one of the finest eating and cooking apples to ripen in the fall. The red fruit is unusually large, with juicy yellow-white flesh. The flavor is very similar to Jonathan. Red Jonagold Apples will keep

Spartan Apple 'Spartan'

Spartan Apple 'Spartan'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Spartan was always one of Grandpa's favorites. It is very McIntosh-like looking and tasting, but is much firmer and keeps better. It picks a couple weeks later in the early fall. The fruit is medium to large, with a dark red mahogany color and a m

Fameuse Apple 'Fameuse'

Fameuse Apple 'Fameuse'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandma's most wel remembered apple as a little girl was Fameuse or as it is commonly called, Snow Apple. It is a very old heritage variety known for its hardiness, good flavor and eating quality, and late summer, early fall ripening time. Th old-t

Akane Apple 'Akane'

Akane Apple 'Akane'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Akane is an late summer/ early fall apple that resembles Jonathan. It is medium in size, bright red in color, and its white flesh has a distinctive aroma and sub-acid flavor. It is an excellent dessert apple.

Cameo® Apple, USPP# 9068 'Cameo®'

Cameo® Apple, USPP# 9068 'Cameo®'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Cameo® is a new variety that almost everyone likes. It is a large, fairly attractive red-striped apple with excellent, sweet-tart flavor and crisp, juicy flesh. It stores well, even in the refrigerator. It picks quit

Chestnut Edible Crab 'Chestnut Crab'

Chestnut Edible Crab 'Chestnut Crab'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Chestnut is a large, russeted, sweet and juicy edible crabapple with a rich, nutty like flavor that can be used for eating, sauce, preserves, and decorative purposes. It ripens late summer, early September.

Gala-Red Gala Apple 'Red Gala'

Gala-Red Gala Apple 'Red Gala'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Red Gala apple is our special selection of the famous Royal Gala™ apple that everyone sees in the produce department. It harvests late summer, early fall in September and is one of the finest eating apples there

Pristine® Apple 'Pristine®'

Pristine® Apple 'Pristine®'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Nature Friendly™ Pristine® is one of the best early disease resistant varieties for the garden. It is a very early ripening yellow apple that resembles Yellow Transparent in appearance, but is much firmer, less acid, and bette

Ginger Gold® Apple, USPP# 7063 'Ginger Gold®'

Ginger Gold® Apple, USPP# 7063 'Ginger Gold®'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Ginger Gold® is an early golden-type apple that ripens in the summer, late in August- early September. It very much resembles a Golden Delicious, but has a more spicy flavor than Golden. The fruit is medium-large and firm and crisp. It is probably

Grandpa's Gold Apple 'Grandpa's Gold'

Grandpa's Gold Apple 'Grandpa's Gold'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Gold is one of the best early summer apples around. Slightly later picking than Lodi, which is closely resembles. The large fruit ripens early in August. The flesh is white and the skin yellow-green and smooth. It has excellent tart fla

Harelson Apple 'Red Harelson'

Harelson Apple 'Red Harelson'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Red Haralson is a very hardy, heritage variety that has stood the test of time. Our strain is a very attractive red color that has less russetting and ripens earlier than the original Haralson. The fruit is crisp and juicy a

Snowsweet™ Apple 'Snowsweet'

Snowsweet™ Apple 'Snowsweet'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Snowsweet™ is a new apple from Minnesota which ripens about two weeks after Honeycrisp™. It most outstanding feature is its flavor, which is described as sweet with a tart balance and rich overtones, almost buttery. The tree is extremel

Hopa Edible-Ornamental Crab 'Hopa'

Hopa Edible-Ornamental Crab 'Hopa'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Hopa Crab apple is an edible crab that is also widely planted as an ornamental. It produces one inch fruit that are bright red.

Empire Apple 'Red Empire'

Empire Apple 'Red Empire'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Empire is one of the best eating apples you will find. Only medium in size, it is a steady bearer on grower friendly trees. The red fruit has a McIntosh-Jonathan like look. The flavor is excellent with white flesh. The fruit can be used for all p

Honeycrisp™ Apple 'Honeycrisp™'

Honeycrisp™ Apple 'Honeycrisp™'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice(TM) Honeycrisp(TM) is the current "star" of the apple industry and with consumers. It is "explosively crisp" with an unbeatable sweet, juicy flavor. It is naturally large and will color well in cooler climates. Color can ra

Grandpa's Choice Hard Cidre Apple Orchard 'Assorted Hard Cidre Apple Collections'

Grandpa's Choice Hard Cidre Apple Orchard 'Assorted Hard Cidre Apple Collections'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
When Grandpa was out selling trees to his commercial grower friends, many of them made a little hard cider. Of course, Grandpa wouldn't refuse a "taste" because it would have been rude! But, of course, the hard cidre connoisseur knows that there is

McIntosh Apple 'Red McIntosh'

McIntosh Apple 'Red McIntosh'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Red McIntosh is one of the all-time favorites for some people. Red McIntosh is an early season apple with very aromatic, flavorful, white, juicy flesh. It is somewhat firm, but only will keep for shorter periods durin

Sweet Sixteen Apple 'Sweet Sixteen'

Sweet Sixteen Apple 'Sweet Sixteen'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
"Sweet Sixteen is a popular apple for very cold northern regions. It ripens in early fall, just ahead of Honeycrisp™. It is crisp and juicy with an exotic yellow flesh and a very sweet, unusual sugar cane or spicy cherry candy flavor. The fru

Lodi Apple 'Lodi'

Lodi Apple 'Lodi'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Lodi is an older variety that was introduced to replace Yellow Transparent, which it resembles somewhat in appearance and season. It is a good early season apple for pies and sauces, but as a dessert apple it tends to be very tart and has been known

Braeburn Apple 'Red Braeburn'

Braeburn Apple 'Red Braeburn'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Braeburn is one of the most popular apples in the produce section. It is a large, conical, very dense fleshed red apple with a nice sweet, but tart flavor. Remeniscent of Jonathan in some ways. Very crisp and juicy. It is one of the latest pickin

Fuji-Auvil Early Fuji® Apple 'Auvil Early Fuji®'

Fuji-Auvil Early Fuji® Apple 'Auvil Early Fuji®'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
If you are a lover of the sweet Fuji apple, but live in the more northern, shorter season areas, Grandpa's Choice™ Auvil Early Fuji® is the best fuji variety for your backyard orchard. It has all the attributes of regular fuji, but harv

Northwest Greening Apple 'Northwest Greening'

Northwest Greening Apple 'Northwest Greening'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Northwest Greening is an old heritage variety that Grandpa grew up with. It was a popular old winter variety that could sometimes produce exceptionally large apples almost 5" across. The fruit is a pale green, that turns yellow when fully mature.

Duchess Apple 'Duchess'

Duchess Apple 'Duchess'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Duchess is a very old heritage variety that is still a treat in the early summer. It is a good cooking apple, but just ordinary for fresh eating. Duchess is a medium to large, greenish yellow apple with bright red striping and splashes. It has rus

Granny Smith Apple 'Granny Smith'

Granny Smith Apple 'Granny Smith'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice™ Granny Smith is another of the most popular varieties that almost needs no description. Go into any produce deparatment and Grannies will be right next to Red and Golden Delicious. The popularity of Granny is that it

Red Rome Apple 'Red Rome'

Red Rome Apple 'Red Rome'

Botanical Name: Malus domestica
Grandpa's Choice(TM)" Red Rome is an old time favorite for cooking, baking, cider and drying. Rome is a medium to large size apple, with all red skin, and very firm, hard, white flesh. It ripens late in the season. Its fresh flavor is appre

Robinson Flowering Crabapple--- SPECIAL PRICE! 'Robinson Crab'

Robinson Flowering Crabapple--- SPECIAL PRICE! 'Robinson Crab'

Botanical Name: Malus z
Robinson Crab is a beautiful single deep pink spring flowering crab that makes a nice addition to the landscape. It has a rounded, dense, spreading habit. The flower starts as a crimson red bud, turning into a deep pink and its fruits are about 3/8

Harogem Apricot 'Harogem'

Harogem Apricot 'Harogem'

Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca
The Harogem apricot has small to medium, glossy orange fruit with a bright red blush. Fruit is very firm with orange, freestone flesh and good testure and flavor. The tree is consistently productive, cold hardy, and resistant to perennial canker and

Harcot Apricot 'Harcot'

Harcot Apricot 'Harcot'

Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca
Grandpa's Choice™ Harcot apricot is a vigorous, productive, self-fertile tree that is cold hardy and has a good resistance to perennial canker, bacterial spot and brown rot. It is an early ripener with medium to large, oblong, orange fru

Chinese Apricot 'Chinese'

Chinese Apricot 'Chinese'

Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca
Grandpa's Choice™ Chinese apricot is an early bearing, heavy producing variety that is recommended for difficult climates prone to late spring frosts. The fruit is of good quality and medium to large in size with a yellow to medium-orang

Hedelfingen Dark Sweet Cherry 'Hedelfingen'

Hedelfingen Dark Sweet Cherry 'Hedelfingen'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
The Hedelfingen Dark Sweet Cherry is an old european variety good for gresh eating, freezing and canning. Fruit is large, firm and black. Trees are vigorous, healthy early bearing reliable producers that ripen midseason. It is quite crack resistant.

Regina Dark Sweet Cherry  USPP# 11530 'Regina'

Regina Dark Sweet Cherry USPP# 11530 'Regina'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Regina(TM) is a new dark sweet cherry bred in Europe and recently introduced to the United States. It is dark red with reddish flesh and sweet tart flavor. The large fruit is exceptionally firm and more crack and split resistant than most sweet che

BlackGold™ Dark Sweet Cherry 'BlackGold™'

BlackGold™ Dark Sweet Cherry 'BlackGold™'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™BlackGold™ Dark Sweet Cherry is large, black sweet cherry ripens one week after Bing and is self-fertile and an excellent pollinator for other late blooming varieties. The tree is frost resistant and very hardy. B

Stella Dark Sweet Cherry 'Stella'

Stella Dark Sweet Cherry 'Stella'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™ Stella Dark Sweet Cherry is a large, good quality fruit from vigorous and productive trees. It is self-fertile so requires no pollinators. It is somewhat susceptible to cracking.

Lapins Dark Sweet Cherry 'Lapins'

Lapins Dark Sweet Cherry 'Lapins'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Lapins Dark Sweet Cherry is a firm, excellent quality, crack resistant fruit that is as large as Bings. They have a rich flavor and ripen in late July. Trees are heavy producers, felf-fertile and resists late frosts.

Bing Dark Sweet Cherry 'Bing'

Bing Dark Sweet Cherry 'Bing'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™Bing Dark Sweet Cherry is a deep mahogany colored fruit that is firm and juicy. Known as the standard for flavor, it has meaty, purple flesh. Bing has a moderate cracking tendency, and is recommended for areas with less rainfa

Royal Anne Blush Sweet Cherry 'Royal Anne'

Royal Anne Blush Sweet Cherry 'Royal Anne'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™ Royal Anne Blush Sweet Cherry is a very old French variety. It has large, firm, light yellow fruit with a beautiful rose blush. Is is considered one of the best for canning because of it's firm, juicy and sweet flesh.

Ranier Blush Sweet Cherry 'Ranier'

Ranier Blush Sweet Cherry 'Ranier'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™ Ranier Blush Sweet Cherry's skin color is golden yellow with a considerable amount of red blush. The fruit is very large and firm, and it's clear colored flesh has a distinctly different flavor. The tree is vigorous, ha

Hudson Dark Sweet Cherry 'Hudson'

Hudson Dark Sweet Cherry 'Hudson'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Hudson is a good, sweet black sweet cherry that is more crack-resistant than most cherries. It ripens later in the season and hangs well on the tree. It is moderately productive and hardy.

Grandpa's Early Black™ Sweet Cherry 'Rynbrandt'

Grandpa's Early Black™ Sweet Cherry 'Rynbrandt'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Early Black™ Sweet Cherry is one of the earliest ripening dark sweet cherries suitable for the eastern growing areas. It is crack resistant, hardy, and a good eater.

WhiteGold™ Blush Sweet Cherry 'WhiteGold™'

WhiteGold™ Blush Sweet Cherry 'WhiteGold™'

Botanical Name: Prunus avium
Grandpa's Choice™ WhiteGold™ Blush Sweet Cherry is a new self-fertile sweet cherry that bears large, yellow fruit with a shiny red blush. Trees are very hardy and frost tolerant. It is a very good choice for a self-fertile, blush

Thundercloud Flowering Plum---SPECIAL PRICE! 'Thundercloud'

Thundercloud Flowering Plum---SPECIAL PRICE! 'Thundercloud'

Botanical Name: Prunus cerasifera
Thundercloud plum is one of the most popular dark purple leaved plums. In the spring it is heavily covered in rich, light pink blooms. The foliage is a glossy, deep purple which retains its color well into the hot summer and fall. It is an upright

Early Richmond Tart Cherry 'Early Richmond'

Early Richmond Tart Cherry 'Early Richmond'

Botanical Name: Prunus cerasus
Early Richmond Tart Cherry is a medium size, juicy, bright red fruit with thin, light red skin. The trees are strong, helthy, self-pollinating heavy producers. This is the leading sour variety that ripens at lease one week prior to other pie cherries

Montmorency Tart Cherry 'Montmorency'

Montmorency Tart Cherry 'Montmorency'

Botanical Name: Prunus cerasus
Grandpa's Choice™ Montmorency Tart Cherry has long been recognized as the standard of the tart cherry industry. The fruit is bright red, medium in size and have a clear, juicy flesh. The trees are self-fruitful, winter hardy, very produc

Danube® Tart Cherry 'Danube®'

Danube® Tart Cherry 'Danube®'

Botanical Name: Prunus cerasus
Danube® Tart Cherry is a new cultivar for the United States. The fruit is medium to large, dark red, and sweeter than Montmorency. The trees are very productive. It ripens earlier than Montmorency and has red juice and flesh. It is great for eating

Sugar Prune Plum  (European) 'Sugar'

Sugar Prune Plum (European) 'Sugar'

Botanical Name: Prunus domestica
Sugar Prune is an old-timey European prune. It is only medium size, with reddish purple fruit and greenish yellow flesh. It gets its name by being so sweet and highly flavored when ripe.

Empress Plum 'Empress'

Empress Plum 'Empress'

Botanical Name: Prunus domestica
The Empress plum ripens in early September and produces a deep blue fruit that is larger than the President plum. The strong, vigourous tree bears a firm, fine textured, yellow fleshed fruit.

President Plum 'President'

President Plum 'President'

Botanical Name: Prunus domestica
The President plum is a late ripening fruit that is a large, round to oblong fruit with blue-black skin. Flesh is fine-textured and yellow. It is a vigorous, upright tree that is a heavy producer. It is one of the last plums to ripen in the season.

Green Gage Plum 'Green Gage'

Green Gage Plum 'Green Gage'

Botanical Name: Prunus domestica
The Green Gage plum has been an American favorite since the time of Jefferson. It's yellowish-green fruit is small to medium and oval in shape with a juicy, smooth texture, amber flesh. Considered the ideal dessert plum, it is also good cooked, canne

Stanley Prune 'Stanley'

Stanley Prune 'Stanley'

Botanical Name: Prunus domestica
Grandpa's Choice ™ Stanley prune is a fine prune-type plum with excellent quality suited for fresh eating, canning, preserves and drying. Fruit is large in size, with dark blue skin and a greenish-yellow, fine grained flesh. The tree is

Frost® Leaf Curl Resisant Peach 'Frost'

Frost® Leaf Curl Resisant Peach 'Frost'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Frost® is a relatively new introduction that has been found to be highly resistant to peach leaf curl. It has medium to large sized yellow fruit. It is semi-freestone, and is good for fresh eating or drying. It ripens in mid-season.

Firebrite Nectarine 'Firebrite'

Firebrite Nectarine 'Firebrite'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Firebrite nectarine is an early-maturing variety with a yellow, semi-cling flesh with a bright red skin over a golden yellow background. The tree is moderately vigorous and highly productive with a good resistance to bacterial spot. Firebrite ripens

Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 1 Peach 'Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 1'

Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 1 Peach 'Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 1'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Flamin'Fury® PF 1™ is one of the earliest ripening peaches offered. Good quality fruit with a high, red color blush over yellow background. This partial clingstone has few split pits and resistance to bacterial spot and brown rot. It ripens a

J. H. Hale Peach 'J.H. Hale'

J. H. Hale Peach 'J.H. Hale'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
J.H. Hale is still an excellent flavored, freestone, eating and canning peach. It ripens quite late, with Elberta. It has large, golden yellow fruit with a carmine overlay. The flesh is fine and deep grained and hangs and keeps well.

STELLAR® - Coralstar® Peach 'STELLAR® - Coralstar®'

STELLAR® - Coralstar® Peach 'STELLAR® - Coralstar®'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
The Coralstar® peach has it all; beautiful appearance, size and flavor. 80% bright orange-red with a coral stripe with great flavor and aroma. The tree is canker resistant, productive and hardy. It ripens early mid-season, close to Canadian Harmony,

Flavortop Nectarine 'Flavortop'

Flavortop Nectarine 'Flavortop'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Flavortop is a yellow fleshed, freestone nectarine that is firm, smooth-textured and of excellent quality. It's skin is mostly red over a bright yellow background. The tree is vigorous, productive and self-fertile with large, showy blossoms. Flavort

Sweet Cap® Peento Peach 'Sweet Cap®'

Sweet Cap® Peento Peach 'Sweet Cap®'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Sweet Cap® is a new peento-type or "donut" peach. It is flat with almost no pit, like a normal peach. It has attractive large, white fleshed fruit that are rosey red on a creamy white background. The white flesh is very firm and fine eating. It i

Suncrest Peach 'Suncrest'

Suncrest Peach 'Suncrest'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Suncrest Peach is an excellent choice for western areas. It ripens in mid-season about 10 days before Elberta and a few days before Cresthaven. It has large, round, firm fleshed, freestone fruit. It is sweet and very tasty. Mostly red over a yell

Baby Gold #5 Cling Peach 'Baby Gold #5'

Baby Gold #5 Cling Peach 'Baby Gold #5'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Babygold #5 is an excellent quality, good size processing peach. It has a yellow, clingstone flesh. The tree is highly productive, vigorous and upright. While many clingstone peaches lack beauty, Baby Gold #5 is very attractive.

Grandpa's Golden Monarch™ Peach 'Grandpa's Golden Monarch'

Grandpa's Golden Monarch™ Peach 'Grandpa's Golden Monarch'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Grandpa's Golden Monarch™ is an early ripening peach that ripens 10-14 days before Redhaven. It has good size, excellent flavor, and is more freestone than most early varieties.

Hardired Nectarine 'Hardired'

Hardired Nectarine 'Hardired'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Grandpa's Choice™ Hardired nectarine ripens in early August with a smooth skin that is 90% red. It has yellow, freestone flesh that has good texture and flavor. The tree is vigorous, very productive, and resistant to brown rot and bacter

Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 7A-Freestone Peach 'Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 7A'

Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 7A-Freestone Peach 'Flamin'Fury(R) PF- 7A'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Flamin'Fury® PF 7A™ peach ripens with Early Redhaven, two weeks before Redhaven. It's large, freestone fruit has a smooth finish with an even red blush over 80% of the peach, and it's flesh is sweet and melting.

Fantasia Nectarine 'Fantasia'

Fantasia Nectarine 'Fantasia'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Fantasia is a large, egg-shaped, freestone nectarine with very smooth skin. It is 70% bright red overlaid on brilliant yellow. Excellent quality yellow, smooth textured flesh with a sweet and tangy flavor. Fantasia ripens later in the season, aroun

Redskin Peach--- ON SALE! 'Redskin'

Redskin Peach--- ON SALE! 'Redskin'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Redskin is a nice late peach that ripened around Labor Day on Grandpa's Farm. It gets good size and will get good taste if picked ripe from the tree. It is mostly yellow, with a nice red cheeks.

Independence Nectarine 'Independence'

Independence Nectarine 'Independence'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
Independence nectarine has a freestone, large oral fruit that is gold, blushed with a brilliant cherry red. One of the best nectarines because of its rich, tangy-sweet flavor. Independence ripens very early in the season, well ahead of Redhaven peac

Cresthaven Peach 'Cresthaven'

Cresthaven Peach 'Cresthaven'

Botanical Name: Prunus persica
The Cresthaven peach is a firm, yellow to red highly colored variety for late season. The fruit is yellow-fleshed, freestone, and shows considerable red around the pit. This is a vigorous, productive tree that has fair tolerance to bacterial spot. Go

Duarte Japanese Plum 'Duarte'

Duarte Japanese Plum 'Duarte'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
Grandpa's Choice™ Duarte plum is a large, heart-shaped, deep red fruit with a sweet blood-red flesh that is excellent for fresh eating or canning. A vigorous and hardy tree. It ripens in mid-season ahead of Italian and Stanley. It is w

Satsuma Japanese Plum 'Satsuma'

Satsuma Japanese Plum 'Satsuma'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Satsuma plum has medium to large, round, dark red fruit with a small pit. The firm, juicy fruit has a sweet and levely flavor that is excellent for frest eating, cooking, canning or preserves. It ripens in early to mid-season.

Wickson Japanese Plum 'Wickson'

Wickson Japanese Plum 'Wickson'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Wickson plum is a large, heart-shaped, greenish yellow fruit that is firm and very sweet. It is very popular for fresh eating.

Friar Japanese Plum 'Friar'

Friar Japanese Plum 'Friar'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Friar plum is a heavy bearer of large, round dark purple fruit that is resistant to cracking. It also has a sweet, firm, amber flesh. Friar is a good dependable producer, ripening early to mid-season

Black Amber Japanese Plum 'Black Amber'

Black Amber Japanese Plum 'Black Amber'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Black Amber plum is a high quality fruit with a rapid growing, heavy bearing tree. It has round, firm dark purple fruit that closely resembles a Friar plum. It ripens with Santa Rosa and is a good companion for that variety.

Pipestone Japanese Plum 'Pipestone'

Pipestone Japanese Plum 'Pipestone'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Pipestone plum is one of the best plums for Northern growers. It has large fruit with a tough, red skin that peels easily and a sweet, juicy, golden yellow flesh. This vigorous, productive tree.

Shiro Japanese Plum 'Shiro'

Shiro Japanese Plum 'Shiro'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
Grandpa's Choice™ Shiro plum, known for its large, round bright yellow fruit has a mild sweet flavor. Excellent for fresh eating, cooking, canning, preserves and desserts, it is a consistant bearer of fruit. It is one of the earliest ri

Santa Rosa Japanese Plum 'Santa Rosa'

Santa Rosa Japanese Plum 'Santa Rosa'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
Grandpa's Choice(TM) Santa Rosa Plum is an old-time proven favorite. Large, round red fleshed fruit and very sweet and juicy. Very high quality fruit suitable for eating or canning. The tree is fast growing and vigorous. Somewhat self-fruitful, b

Simka Japanese Plum 'Simka'

Simka Japanese Plum 'Simka'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina
The Simka plum has large, uniform, purplish-red fruit with very firm, sweet, yellowish-white flesh. It ripens 5-7 days before Friar plum and seems to keep well on the tree for a couple weeks.

Toka Hybrid Plum 'Toka'

Toka Hybrid Plum 'Toka'

Botanical Name: Prunus salicina hybrid
The Toka plum, known for it's reddish bronze fruit and blue blooms, is a moderately vigorous tree and a heavy bearer of fruit. It's aromatic fruit has a rich, spicy, sweet flavor. Ripens from late August to September.

Bradford Flowering Pear---SPECIAL PRICE! 'Bradford'

Bradford Flowering Pear---SPECIAL PRICE! 'Bradford'

Botanical Name: Pyrus calleryana
Bradford Flowering Pear is one of the most common flowering pear varieties. It is covered in masses of beautiful white flowers in the spring. It has glossy green foliage through the summer that turns flourescent orange and red in the fall.

Sensation Red Bartlett Pear 'Red Bartlett'

Sensation Red Bartlett Pear 'Red Bartlett'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Sensation Red Bartlett is a highly red colored strain of Bartlett pear that has all the same qualities as its parent. It is redder and more attractive though. Ripens along with regular green Bartlett.

Moonglow Pear 'Moonglow'

Moonglow Pear 'Moonglow'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Grandpa's Nature's Friendly™ Moonglow Pear is for home gardens. It is a medium-large, dull yellow fruit with a pink blush and it's white flesh is mildly juicy, soft and has a smooth texture. It's excellent, mild flavor with almost no gri

Concorde® Pear 'Concorde'

Concorde® Pear 'Concorde'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Concorde® is an excellent new fresh variety from England. It has very attractive, long yellow fruit. The fruit is medium sized with excellent crisp, white flesh. It has excellent flavor and keeps well. It ripens late in the season after Comice an

Harrow Delight Pear 'Harrow Delight'

Harrow Delight Pear 'Harrow Delight'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Harrow Delight is an excellent, early ripening backyard pear. The fruit is medium size with an attractive red blush over a yellow background. The flesh is very smooth and less gritty than most pears. It is highly fire-blight resistant!! Ripens ne

Comice Pear 'Comice'

Comice Pear 'Comice'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Comice pear is a premium dessert pear with rich, juicy, firm, sweet, fine-textured flesh. Fruit is large, broad based, narrow necked and greenish yellow with a red blush and light russet. This erratic cropper has large, very vigorous trees. Ripens

Red Clapp's Pear--- SPECIALLY PRICED ON SALE! 'Kalle'

Red Clapp's Pear--- SPECIALLY PRICED ON SALE! 'Kalle'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Red Clapp's Pear is a highly colored strain of the regular Clapp's Favorite pear. It ripens in mid-summer and is a juicy, sweet fruit with all the good and bad qualities of its parent.

Forelle Pear 'Forelle'

Forelle Pear 'Forelle'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Forelle pear is a small to medium sized winter pear that has a green background color, with red "trout-like" speckles. When ripe it turns a golden yellow with a bright red blush. The flesh is high quality and good for fresh eating. The fruit is kn

Bosc- Golden Russet® Pear 'Golden Russet® Bosc'

Bosc- Golden Russet® Pear 'Golden Russet® Bosc'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Golden Russet® Bosc Pear is a sport of the Bosc Pear and is long and symmetrical with a uniform, golden russet. It's flesh is yellowish-white and ripens about the same time as Anjou. The trees are large and vigorous.

Seckel Pear 'Seckel'

Seckel Pear 'Seckel'

Botanical Name: Pyrus communis
Seckel is commonly called a Sugar Pear and although it isn't the prettiest fruit, it is one of the best quality dessert pears. It is small and yellowish brown with fine grained, smooth, and extremely sweet juicy flesh. It has a distinctive, spicy, ri

Shinseiki Asian Pear 'Shinseiki'

Shinseiki Asian Pear 'Shinseiki'

Botanical Name: Pyrus pyrifolia
Shineseiki Asian Pear is an early season Asian pear with yellow skin and very little russet. The fruit is medium in size with smooth creamy white flesh and a sweet, mild taste. Shinseiki is one of the earliest asian pears, ripening in mid-summer a co

Backyard Fruit Production

Backyard Fruit Production

Botanical Name: Z-Book
An Illustrated Fruit Growing Guide One of Grandpa's nurseryman friends wrote this book, which is an excellent starter book for the Backyard Fruit Grower. Easy to read and well organized. Covers everything from varaiety selection, planting

Small soap bars to deter deer

Small soap bars to deter deer

Botanical Name: Z-Deer deterring soap
Grandpa used to be able to find these little soap bars in all the motels he stayed in, and wondered if their fragrant smell would have any effect on the deer that often ravaged newly planted trees. Surprisingly enough, they did! However, he found t

Maggot Barriers for Apple, Pears, and other fruit

Maggot Barriers for Apple, Pears, and other fruit

Botanical Name: Z-Maggot Barriers
Maggot Barriers are a new product Grandpa has learned about that he thinks is perfect for the backyard fruit grower. A 300 count ziplock bag should provide about enough barriers for a common semi-dwarf tree if the fruit is properly thinned out to ac

Mason Bee Nest Kits

Mason Bee Nest Kits

Botanical Name: Z-Mason Bee Kits
Take the Sting Out of Bee Keeping Native Orchard Mason Bees are widespread throughout North America. They are superb early season pollinators of fruit trees, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries-and better than honeybees, because they're acti

Red and Silver Reflective Plastic Tape

Red and Silver Reflective Plastic Tape

Botanical Name: Z-Red & Silver Reflective Tape
Apparently deer don't like to think that people are around, and this red and silver reflective tape rustles in the slightest of breeze in the orchard and makes the deer think there is someone there. Highly reflective, the silver side catches flashes

Plastic Spiral Tree Protectors (24 inches long)

Plastic Spiral Tree Protectors (24 inches long)

Botanical Name: Z-Spiral Tree Protectors
Grandpa now ships FREE tree wraps with each tree ordered, since he thinks these are so important to protect your young trees from "critter damage". So, you do not need to order these unless you need extras for other trees. Protect your you